scoop something ↔ up

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishscoop something ↔ up phrasal verbif a lot of people scoop something up, they buy it quickly so that soon there is none leftFans scooped up the trading cards in the first few hours of the sale. →scoop→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

scoop up• He had a plasticbag in his pocket and he knelt down in the grass and scooped it up.• She watched Victorine and Baptiste scoop it up.• Holmes scooped the cat up and presented her to Mrs Hudson.• If you could get out of the submersible, you could scoop the animals up by the handful.• By eight months, Hannah could pick up small objects by scooping them up into her fist.• The kitten suddenly flings out a paw and scoops the object up into the air and backwards over its shoulder.• I said and scooped him up, letting Clarisa rave on.• Kadan scooped the twins up off the floor.